Steam-cooker.



MQE. JOHNSON. STEAM 000mm.

APPLIOATION IILED NOV. 1, 1910.

Patented Sept; 12, 1911.

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MAHALIA E. JOHNSON, 0F RENO, NEVADA.

STEAM-COOKER.

Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed November 1, 1910. Serial No. 550,206.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, MAHALIA E. JOHNSON, citizen of the United States, residing at Reno, in the county of Washoe. and State of Nevada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Cookers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention. comprehends certain new and useful improvements in cooking devices or utensils, and the invention has for. its primary object an improved construction of steamer which will prove simple and eflicient in cooking cereals, vegetables such as rice, in making-puddings and similar desserts, and in keeping food warm without danger of burning or drying up the same.

Vt 'ith this and other objects in view as will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions and arrangements of the parts as I will hereinafter fully describe and claim. 7

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following de scription and accompanying drawings in which s Figure 1 is'a transverse sectional view of a cooking or food warming device embodying the improvementsof my invention. Fig. 2 .is a perspective view thereof, the lid or cover being shown in elevated relation'to the rest of the device and in dotted lines, this view also showing a modified form of the foodcontaining pan.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

My improved steaming device embodies a bottom pan 1, a ring 2 adapted to fit on the pan 1, an inner pan 3, and a lid or cover 4. The bot-tom pan 1 is preferably formed with an outturned rim flange 5, and the ring 2*is formed with a corresponding upwardly oflset and outwardly projecting flange 6 adapted to fit within the rim of the bottom pan 1 and project out over the flange 5 of the latter. In the main inner portion of 2 are any desired number of perforations 7, the same permitting the steam from the water in the bottom pan 1 to pass upwardly so as to fill the space above the inner pan 3 in which the food to be cooked or warmed is placed. The lid or cover 4 is of dome shape as shown, so that provision is made for the the ring rising of puddings or the like. The inner the bottom pan 1.

If desired, I may employ, instead of the inner pan 3, two mating pans 3* of segmental shape as shown, whereby two different kinds of foods may be cooked or kept warm within the device.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying operation of my improved cooking utensil will be apparent.

In the practical use ofthe device, it is obvious that it may be used in various ways as the skill, experience and judgment of the cook will dictate, but in any instance the pan 1 contains a predetermined amount of water, while the pan 3 contains the food, either with or without the addition of water, according to the particular food to be cooked or the food to be maintained in warm condition. As the water in the pan 1 boils, the steam or vapor generated thereby will pass upwardly through the perforations 7 and cook the food or keep the same warm by the steam process, all liability of burning being absolutely precluded and it being thereby rendered unnecessary forthe cook to remove the lid and glance at the food from time to time. It is also to be noted that none of the parts of the device are provided with a handle, the parts being thereby rendered more easy to clean and sanitary. The only part which may be at all likened to a handle is the knob 9 on top of the lid or cover 4.

It will be noted that the pan 1, the inner pan 3, and the cover or lid 4 are of the shape and size of ordinary bake pans, and that the ring 2 and its supporting flange or inner portion serves to holdthese pans in position when assembled. ,The complete cooker is therefore mainly composed of stockflparts, the ring 2 admitting of the assembling of the same to produce the improved steam cooker.

'What I claim is:

A steam cooker comprising a deep pan, a dome cover closing the pan, said pan and said cover having registering voutturned flanges for supporting the cover, .a ring interposed between the flanges and having an Patented Sept. 12, 1911.

drawing, the

being easily kept inwardly extending and downwardly ofiset to hold the small pan 'above the bottom of 10 supporting flange having apertures pr0vidthe deep pan; ing sources v of communication between the 1 In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature deep pan and the cover, said ring being in presence of two Witnesses.

rolled up at its outer edge to provide a stop 9 for the flange of the cover to hold the some MAHALIA JOHNSON in posit-ion, end a smell pan fitted through VVitnsses: the supporting flange and having an 0ut- I LOUISE CHms'rnNsoN, turned bead engaging the supporting flange ALBERT D. Arms. 

